In the series Crossings, U-D-B-U and Dis/-Jointures separated and disassembled components, elements and substances – oftentimes materials that can be traced back to the human exploitation of resources, such as ashes from coal mines, cement, different types of soil and textiles – are expanded in their properties and combined in hybrid fabrics and structures. In a practice of unlearning, the textile becomes the support for the concrete, which is thereby transformed into fragile and lightweight material. The social construction and binary attribution of gender-based properties - concrete in its association with architecture as a masculine, monolithic practice on the one hand and textiles, carpets, patchworks as a traditionally feminine craft on the other – are interwoven here. Existing orders or hierarchies begin to crumble, unravel, disintegrate.

U-D-B-U

2019
in collaboration with Ebba Fransén Waldhör

In an anagram, all elements exist in a simultaneous relationship. Nothing is first and nothing is last; nothing is future and nothing is past. The series U-D-B-U provides an anagram of reconfigured relational paradigms in which concrete and textiles merge. The boundaries between carrier and carried are dissolving, whereas meaning and matter become a porous and dense , soft and solidified hybrid of appearing dichotomies. This work contains no clear entities, only a continuous fluctuation within the elements.

exhibition views, DOCK20 - Kunstraum und Sammlung Hollenstein, Lustenau (A)
cement, coal ash, linen
various dimensions